The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01


validity of the driven-wells patent.
JOSIAH PORTER and his wife were killed
by a runaway at Middletown, N. Y.
SIXTY thousand children participated in
the Brooklyn Sunday-school parade.
A Boston bootblack was fined one cent,
without costs, for shining on Sunday.
JAMES PRESTON of Brownton, N. j., died
at the age of one hundred fifteen years.
HENRY j. RAMsDELL, well-known jour
nalist, died of apoplexy at Washington
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his party
arrived at Saranac Lake Friday afternoon.
EX-SENATOR THURMAN declines to be the
democratic candidate for governor in Ohio.
A COTTON factory at Natchez, Miss, ex-
ploded Saturday, killing several employees.
SOUTHERN soldiers took the prizes in
Fridays competitive drills at Washington,
TWELVE English people lost their lives by
the burning of the Opera Comique at Paris.
THE new Weland canal was opened last
week to vessels drawing fourteen feet of
water.
The President has appointed L. w. Reid
of Virginia to be assistant register of the
treasury.
BISMARCK is suffering keenly with acute
rheumatism. His physicians advise COM
plete rest.
A CYCLONE has visited Calcutta. -Four
ships are reported missing and one has
foundered.
AT Mcdonald, Pa, lightning struck a
French clearinghouse and instantly killed
two boarders.
A FACTORY fire in Natchez, Miss, caused
the loss of five lives and injuries to many
more persons.
EDITOR O'BRIEN had great reception in
Boston Saturday, and $4,000 was raised for
the Irish fund.
The Catholic church at Gardiner, Mass,
has been burned by spontaneous combus-
ton. Loss $4,000.
THE loss by recent forest fires in northern
Michigan is now put at seven million dol
lars and eight lives.
MUNKAcY's Last Moments of Mozart "
has been bought by Ex-Governor Alger of
Michigan for $4,000.
A MINE disaster at Udston, England,
buried seventy-five miners Forty bodies
have been recovered.
THE death of a yellow fever victim at
Key West has caused panic there, and
many residents are leaving.
A STEAM elevator at Burlington, Ohio
blew up Monday, and fifteen persons are re-
ported killed and wounded.
THE United States supreme court has adj
journed until October. No decision was
made in the telephone cases.
| MAY oath was Queen Victoria's birthday
and it was noticed in some way in the cities
of Great Britain and Canada.
A final and positive summons to Rome
has been put into DR.. McGlynn's hands.
| The SIN says he will not obey
THE Logan fund has been closed and all
but small sum of the subscribed money
paid in. 1t amounts to S63,034.
THE Southern Presbyterian General AS
sembly adopting resolution favorable to
union with the northern church.
THE ten-thousand-dollar st. Bernard dog,
| Merchant Prince, owned by John n. Moore
of Melrose, Mass, died last week.
THREE thieving bell-boys of the United
States Hotel at Boston were arrested and
| 81 200 worth of plumber was recovered.
A PLOT to assassinate the Sultan of Turkey
has been discovered The effect on the
| Sultan is visible in the terror he exhibits.
A PROCESSION of the unemployed in Dub
lin, carrying the black flag with skull and
cross-bones, were dispersed by the police.
THE city of Mexico experienced heavy
earthquake shocks Sunday, which caused
some damage and panic among the people
In local elections in Virginia last week
party lines were closely drawn, and Riddle.
berger was badly beaten in his own county.
THE soldiers in the national camp in
Washington made their grand parade last
Thursday and were reviewed by the Presi'
dent
THERE are five hundred cases of small
pox at Santiago de Cuba and four hundred
in Jamaica. Sixty per cent of the cases art
fatal.
The infant son of George Kibts of New
York was bitten by a spider and died
twenty-four hours afterwards in great
agony.
A REMARKABLE explosive has been in
vented nv Iiputenant GraVdOn late of the
navy 1t is seven times more powerful thar
dynamite.
QUEEN VICToRIA's birthday was recog
nized by the Irish in many places in thi:
country by effigy burnings and display Of
black flags.
FoRY-THREE stowaways sought to steal {
passage on the steamer Shanemore " from
Liverpool to Quebec, sixteen of the number
succeeding.
A THREE-sToRy building collapsed at st
Louis, and it is believed from ten to twent,
workmen are buried in the ruins. Probabl,
all are killed.
THE reunited Good Templars elected Off
GERS Friday. John b. Finch of Evanston
ILL.,, was again chosen as Right Worth,
Good Templar.
M. DE FREyCINET informs Presiden
Grevy of France that he cannot form cab
met. The President is urged to remove
General Boulanger.
NoRcoME l. SEGUIN, manager of TIL,
Philadelphia Umbrella Company, has EN-
bezzled SS5 900 of funds held in trust b.
him and has run away.
AN accident on the Pennsylvania roat
near Altoona killed eight persons and in
jured several more. The cause is said Il
have been broken axle.
A HUGE meteor is reported to have faller
near Wellsburg, n. Y. Residents CLAIM
that a pit in the ground measuring twent,
by forty feet was caused by it,
RECEIVER SELDOM of the Texas & Pacif
railway asked the United States circui
court in Louisiana for an Interpretation G
the long and short-haul clause.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE has formally and pull
/ licly, through Warden Dwight of its Lax
school, denounced the land doctrines o
5 Henry George and Dr. McGlynn.
l OFFICIAL statistics show that 1924 pei
sons left Alsace-Lorraine between the year
1880 and 1885, while during the same perio
{ there was German influx of $685.
: EIGHTY-FoUR evicted Irish tenants al
I rived in Philadelphia Sunday and wer
5 detained on the ground that the BIRTHS
r government had paid their passages.
!, A GENERAL prohibition campaign is bein
: inaugurated in Dakota, and it is believed
! that nearly sixty out of eighty counties will
q vote out the liquor traffic next November.
AN open switch caused the wreck of
freight-train near Mnot, MINI. The engin
and nine cars were ditched and Engnee
Miller and Brakeman Brainerd were killed
t THREE persons were killed Friday b
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